The Scarlet City: A Novel of 16th Century ItalyChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 368 pagina's Although he bears one of the most notorious names in all of Italy, Giovanni Borgia doesn't know his parentage. Hella Haasse uses the Italian Wars as a backdrop for Giovanni's agonizing quest for his identity. Set against the backdrop of the Italian wars, this novel seeks to unravel the puzzle of Giovanni Borgia's true identity. Machiavelli, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, the Borgias and the Medici are some of the characters who inhabit the secretive and dangerous world of sixteenth century Rome. |
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Pagina 20
... rumors circulating about Cesare before his marriage to Charlotte d'Albret. By now everyone knows that he suffered from the illness that the Italians call the French disease—a high price to pay, in my opinion, for the pleasures of love ...
... rumors circulating about Cesare before his marriage to Charlotte d'Albret. By now everyone knows that he suffered from the illness that the Italians call the French disease—a high price to pay, in my opinion, for the pleasures of love ...
Pagina 26
... rumors about poison: Pope Alexander dying, Cesare seriously ill, the Vatican in an uproar, Rome a place where those who support Borgia will go down to perdition . . . The servants' agitation spread to us too. While the doors were being ...
... rumors about poison: Pope Alexander dying, Cesare seriously ill, the Vatican in an uproar, Rome a place where those who support Borgia will go down to perdition . . . The servants' agitation spread to us too. While the doors were being ...
Pagina 40
... rumors, myths and invented or half-forgotten mischief I'm identified with, I could at least take a stand, defend myself. But there is silence all around me. There's plenty of courteous bowing, gracious saluting, a readiness to let me ...
... rumors, myths and invented or half-forgotten mischief I'm identified with, I could at least take a stand, defend myself. But there is silence all around me. There's plenty of courteous bowing, gracious saluting, a readiness to let me ...
Pagina 45
... rumor is that they're the patrons of a new mendicant order. They're here often, asking favors for their protégés . . . But Her Excellency? If she's trying to get closer to the Pope again, then it makes sense that the Varanos would act ...
... rumor is that they're the patrons of a new mendicant order. They're here often, asking favors for their protégés . . . But Her Excellency? If she's trying to get closer to the Pope again, then it makes sense that the Varanos would act ...
Pagina 53
... rumors. He could not, even in fits of the deepest despondency, imagine that the Pope would take an important ... rumor. He closed his ears to the echo of this intrigue, but it remained audible around him during his stay at the court—an ...
... rumors. He could not, even in fits of the deepest despondency, imagine that the Pope would take an important ... rumor. He closed his ears to the echo of this intrigue, but it remained audible around him during his stay at the court—an ...
Inhoudsopgave
XI Tullia dAragona | 217 |
XII Vittoria Colonna | 233 |
XIII Giovanni Borgia | 251 |
XIV Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini | 269 |
XV Tullia dAragona | 279 |
XVI Giovanni Borgia | 295 |
XVII Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolò Machiavelli | 311 |
XVIII Michelangelo Buonarroti | 325 |
VII Vittoria Colonna | 131 |
VIII Francesco Guicciardini to Niccolò Machiavelli | 143 |
IX Giovanni Borgia | 151 |
X Pietro Aretino and Giovanni Borgia | 203 |
XIX Giovanni Borgia | 335 |
XX Vittoria Colonna | 351 |
XXI Giovanni Borgia | 365 |
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